My uncle made vodka from potatoes,I was a teenager and were from Canadian decent we made all the shine for the county or what ever its called up there my cousins delivered we also made beer the prices up there are high now this was in the 70s one night my uncle got drunk and fell asleep and the cellar caught on fire well after they arrested him he went to jail for 5 yrs the day he got out my aunt said here's your room all burned up he started making shine and after two months his room was all fixed up there gone now but I know how to make it now
I live in germany and I'm totally fascinated by popcorn, I love what he tells , a really wise man, I could listen to him all day. Wish I could visit the area where he lived one day. Rest in peace
A true gentleman. It's terrible the way the government treats the people. He had a trade, they don't want people doing what they can do. Rest in peace Mr Sutton
@@wherecreekwaterflows my grandfather drank all his life. Never did he used to have a hangover. He chased his liquor with water. But he had a lot of lil sayings he used to say when he would drink. I got them all stored away (in my🧠) for when I get older so I can say them. Here's a few you guys are welcome to keep 'em. "Between my lips and over my gums ,look out stomach here she comes" " You ain't no bear of you do 💩in the woods" "When I die burry me deep, put a bottle of gin at my head and my feet, cut off my pecker and lay it on my chest, tell all the hoes this sweet mfer is laid to rest" " You see me fighting a bear, you help the bear" Well that's just a few I got plenty more. "How come every time your elbow bend your mouth open" Courtesy of Jimmy Robinson, aka Granddad!
He was a coward who killed himself....he thought he was beating the government......but they really won. He is out of business now. He had to much foolish pride and was really just a fool
I knew Jr Valentine, Cosby is in TN, Popcorn was my daddy's cousin, the whole family was moonshiners. My daddy started watching the still when he was 8 years old, had to make a livin in the depression best way they could.
My uncle lives down in Harlan KY. He got to meet Popcorn before he passed. Apparently the dude would talk your ear off but he was a sweet old man. Rip Popcorn. I wish I got a chance to meet you too, I still can’t believe my uncle and aunt got to meet him!
This is what people lack these days, problem solving skills. Good Man Sutton used his tack, people skills, and ingenuity to figure out how to start an honest living. Didn't steal not one piece of equipment
Back in his day he would be arrested and all kinds of things for making liquor but he has every right to make liquor just like the big liquor companies do
even ignoring that its not a "right" big liqour companies do testing no moonshiner thats actually a "moon shiner" ever did testing... thats the main reason modern "moon shining" is against the law without proper paperwork........ that and avoiding taxing....
@@mattschmitt9924 I am an old moonshiner from northern Georgia. A number on the top of the jar can mean several things. 1) It is part of the first run or higher alcohol content, say 110-140 proof 2) The number may be the number of times it has been distilled. The old cartoons with moonshine jugs with 3 X's on the jug meant 3 times distilled. 3) Number of times filtered, usually through hardwood charcoal. 4) A "private" code that only the 'shiner knows.
Love this hillbilly man Popcorn Sutton, an amazing man, an amazing culture. May he rest in peace. African American woman 50s generation N.J ♥️ ❤️. natural living on the land surviving without debt.
Snowbird where my family from my momsides I grew up in Cosby.. I moved to Knoxville a year ago everyone calls me country because my accent so thick lol
Cosby, Del Rio by the river, beautiful and perfect 'shine country, and over mountain in Mitchell Co. Sadly, meth has totally ruined the area, along with the opiods and pills like they have all over Southern Appalachia
@Sheena Banks I'm saddened to hear that. We've got 53 acres of family land in BFE outside of Abingdon, and I just don't have the funds to buy out 3 sisters and 3 cousins.
My pops used to roll up his empty soft pack of Marlboro Lights exact same way..he started life in White County Georgia...ended in Milledgeville at the old coal plant(Plant Branch) where he retired from!! Tough Ole men that gen was!
LIVING FREE POPCORN. NO GOVERNMENT MESSING WITH YOU ANYMORE. THE AROMA OF YOUR MASH CAN STILL BE SMELT FLOWING THROUGH THE HOLLOWS. YOU ARE AN ICON. IN THE HANDS OF THE ALMIGHTY YOU NOW REST.
He was born in 1946 after WW2 and was 10 years old in 1956 when the economy was booming He new went through the Great Depression when a man had to do what he had to do just to keep from starvation And in the time he was a teenager and a young man was in the 1960 when every sewing plant was begging for workers especially in the south My mama was born in 1946 to and she remembers well how all the manufacturers were begging for workers and paying top dollar At 2 to 3 times minimum wage She worked for West clock and the Roper manufacturing Nothing wrong with growing up hard and having to scratch for every penny But Nobody seems to care about the lives and homes a 1/2 gallon jar full of moonshine did to the families of most time the man of the house I met Marvin years and years ago at Maggie Vakley black bear restaurant which is still open today And he would be the first to tell you I make moonshine because everybody wants it and I can do it Remember Nobody has ever given it away unless they were trying to get a new customer 😂😂😂😂
The government doesn’t make enough tax money to leave the small scale liquor production alone. Yeah forget the 40% income taxes, we need to make sure the people sharing their craft go to jail. It’s so dumb. If the government wants to tax these guys then why don’t they figure out a way for moonshiners to apply to have a license and make it easy for them and less stressful.
Popcorn Sutton the true definition of an American Entrepreneur 🇺🇸
Make America great again Popcorn Sutton rest in peace 🙏
Your missed popcorn...But will NEVER be forgotten !!!!!
True outlaws are always this cool and respectful. Rest easy cotton. Thank you for your lessons in life.
Rest in Peace, Popcorn
Rip the og the legend🙏he was a man with morals and principles💯.
My uncle made vodka from potatoes,I was a teenager and were from Canadian decent we made all the shine for the county or what ever its called up there my cousins delivered we also made beer the prices up there are high now this was in the 70s one night my uncle got drunk and fell asleep and the cellar caught on fire well after they arrested him he went to jail for 5 yrs the day he got out my aunt said here's your room all burned up he started making shine and after two months his room was all fixed up there gone now but I know how to make it now
Everybody know where suicides go!
❤
Yeehaw
I live in germany and I'm totally fascinated by popcorn, I love what he tells , a really wise man, I could listen to him all day. Wish I could visit the area where he lived one day. Rest in peace
Such an awesome man and a Appalachian icon...R.I.P. Popcorn Sutton ❤🙏🏻🇺🇲
A true gentleman. It's terrible the way the government treats the people.
He had a trade, they don't want people doing what they can do.
Rest in peace Mr Sutton
What the government can't tax. Is the problem.
Do you see what they continue to do to good citizens??
@@BigDmike24true
Back from the days when neighbors helped each other out. I miss those days!!
I'm that sort of feller., I help out my neighbors in their yards mainly. Taking care of just the older people that can't do it themselves
Legends never die, Rest In Peace Popcorn
RIP🍿 ❤ You'll be missed ❤
I love listening to old country people talk.
Me too!
@@wherecreekwaterflows my grandfather drank all his life. Never did he used to have a hangover. He chased his liquor with water. But he had a lot of lil sayings he used to say when he would drink. I got them all stored away (in my🧠) for when I get older so I can say them. Here's a few you guys are welcome to keep 'em.
"Between my lips and over my gums ,look out stomach here she comes"
" You ain't no bear of you do 💩in the woods"
"When I die burry me deep, put a bottle of gin at my head and my feet, cut off my pecker and lay it on my chest, tell all the hoes this sweet mfer is laid to rest"
" You see me fighting a bear, you help the bear"
Well that's just a few I got plenty more.
"How come every time your elbow bend your mouth open"
Courtesy of Jimmy Robinson, aka Granddad!
@@roscop.coldchain4738 hahah “you see me fighting a bear you help the bear”
@@roscop.coldchain4738 lol!😁👍
@@roscop.coldchain4738 what about "shit fire and save the matches" did he ever say that one? My granddad used that one on the regular.😅
Gotta love a man who makes his own living...
If you don’t know the story of Popcorn Sutton, you should go check it out.
His lifestyle might not have been for everyone, but the dude was a legend.
He was a coward who killed himself....he thought he was beating the government......but they really won. He is out of business now. He had to much foolish pride and was really just a fool
Thanks for coming to my family reunions Popcorn. You'll always be missed.
This man is a legend and they for sure do not make them like him anymore. He went out on his own terms and did not subject himself to the “law”.
I just liked to hear him talk about anything. I could listen all day. 😢😊
Fitting playing Ralph Stanley as the music. Awesome
I knew Jr Valentine, Cosby is in TN, Popcorn was my daddy's cousin, the whole family was moonshiners. My daddy started watching the still when he was 8 years old, had to make a livin in the depression best way they could.
My great grandad was a coal miner amd a moonshiner. Did 3 years cause of it...... He wouldn't tell the police SHIT. Good man.
Amazing man!!!. Rest in peace Popcorn.
my brother loves this guy,hes a fucking legend (science is amazing 🎉❤
Proud to be related to this man through my grandmother, who’s father ran shine all through Kentucky and Ohio
My uncle lives down in Harlan KY. He got to meet Popcorn before he passed. Apparently the dude would talk your ear off but he was a sweet old man. Rip Popcorn. I wish I got a chance to meet you too, I still can’t believe my uncle and aunt got to meet him!
This is what people lack these days, problem solving skills. Good Man Sutton used his tack, people skills, and ingenuity to figure out how to start an honest living. Didn't steal not one piece of equipment
One of the best moonshiners
Back in his day he would be arrested and all kinds of things for making liquor but he has every right to make liquor just like the big liquor companies do
even ignoring that its not a "right" big liqour companies do testing no moonshiner thats actually a "moon shiner" ever did testing... thats the main reason modern "moon shining" is against the law without proper paperwork........ that and avoiding taxing....
This a great example of how immoral the concept of government really is
They were going to arrest him that’s why he killed himself
Buy Law he does have the right
✡️✡️ everywhere
😂😊love these videos, it reminds me of the simpler time. 80s, early 90s. I miss them.
Love ya pop!! rest easy old dog
I have a jar of his liquor. No lie it has a number one marked on the top.
The fact that your name is Trent makes me believe that 100%, that’s fucking awesome man
Why is marked with a 1? Genuine question.
And I bet if you shake it up, set it on top of a mountain,it would still be beading when you get back.
@@mattschmitt9924 First jar of the batch, im pretty sure.
@@mattschmitt9924 I am an old moonshiner from northern Georgia. A number on the top of the jar can mean several things. 1) It is part of the first run or higher alcohol content, say 110-140 proof 2) The number may be the number of times it has been distilled. The old cartoons with moonshine jugs with 3 X's on the jug meant 3 times distilled. 3) Number of times filtered, usually through hardwood charcoal. 4) A "private" code that only the 'shiner knows.
Have you seen this guy's dance video?💯👍
An American legend.
I been on the price family property up on green corner rd and all over snowbird mountain. I love these stories!!!
The man is ...
GENUINE HISTORY!!!
bless his shine 🕗
Nothing better than a couple men trading some of the finer things in life to help each other out.
That right there is some of the best awness people you could ever meet .
My mom side of the family lived up in Kentucky went by the name Hines
RIP POPCORN
FTP. I watched all your homemade videos
One awesome man 😊
That's the kind of man that will teach you slow and shoot you quick.
It saddens me that the feds made this iconic man kill himself!
me too! and theres all these degenerates doing way worse things , and getting a slap on the wrist! smh ..🖤
Love this hillbilly man Popcorn Sutton, an amazing man, an amazing culture. May he rest in peace. African American woman 50s generation N.J ♥️ ❤️. natural living on the land surviving without debt.
Loved the Pall Mall smokes. (Before they started making the filter jobs)
There are a few we should clone.....
He's one of em.......
damn you to Hell I.R.S. .....
7th level
Love these! God Bless
It would be the biggest honor in the world to hear Popcorn call me a "down good fellar".
Damn good fellar
You wanna go down on him good?
@@txlonghornremodeling I'll pass on that
Miss you ol friend
Wish I can be friends with someone as wise as he. It’s about connection and stories
Well said. RIP Mr. Sutton. God bless him and all who follow his teachings.
Well if you pass away, you two could meet up in heaven
Snowbird where my family from my momsides I grew up in Cosby.. I moved to Knoxville a year ago everyone calls me country because my accent so thick lol
Cosby, Del Rio by the river, beautiful and perfect 'shine country, and over mountain in Mitchell Co. Sadly, meth has totally ruined the area, along with the opiods and pills like they have all over Southern Appalachia
@@buknekkit3084 yes herion and phetnyl hit in Cocke past year dying left n right.. I had land on the pigeon river worst mistake of my life selling
@Sheena Banks I'm saddened to hear that. We've got 53 acres of family land in BFE outside of Abingdon, and I just don't have the funds to buy out 3 sisters and 3 cousins.
what a cool dood God bless the brother! Rest in peace.
I love this guy!!!❤
I live next to del rio Cosby and snowbird this man is a legend to this day people will pay high dollar prices for a jar of his hooch
Dam good man popcorn was a real man
Rip the Goat!! ❤️🤟🫡🇺🇸🙏
Loved old popcorn
Thank u nick and valentine I wish I could’ve tried popcorn suttons shine
OLD TIMER WAS OLD TIME GANGSTER RIP POPCORN
I miss popcorn. 😢.! But people die but legends live forever.!😢
My pops used to roll up his empty soft pack of Marlboro Lights exact same way..he started life in White County Georgia...ended in Milledgeville at the old coal plant(Plant Branch) where he retired from!! Tough Ole men that gen was!
When I listen to him talk I feel like I'm there in the story.
He looks pretty good for 36!
"borrowed the money, paid it back with liquor.". 🇺🇲 GOD BLESS AMERICA 😂
I could listen to the legend talk all day long..🤔😉 RIP Popcorn..😍😢💕🔥👊
Best shine ever made😊
Loved Popcorn 😢
LEGEND!!!!!
Extremely lucky to have drank a ton of liquor from one of his last few runs
how was it compared to todays "shine" off the shelves?
"I'm from the guvmint, an I'm here to help y'all..." Yeah, right! 😅
Moonshine is still alive and well in the United States from ny to commifornia. 🤪🇺🇲
God bless you. R I P
Legend ❤
LIVING FREE POPCORN. NO GOVERNMENT MESSING WITH YOU ANYMORE. THE AROMA OF YOUR MASH CAN STILL BE SMELT FLOWING THROUGH THE HOLLOWS. YOU ARE AN ICON. IN THE HANDS OF THE ALMIGHTY YOU NOW REST.
Nick was a helluva golfer
Nipsey was a legend
Don't ever mention Nipsey on the legendary Popcorns videos.
Great man
Know several Suttons ..heard stories..RIp Popcorn
Popcorn was definitely badder than Corn Pop.
RIP Popcorn
Real American hero
Heh, my first still was a cooking pot where I put the copper in the hole for venting steam
Popcorn always made me good Liquor
He was born in 1946 after WW2 and was 10 years old in 1956 when the economy was booming
He new went through the Great Depression when a man had to do what he had to do just to keep from starvation
And in the time he was a teenager and a young man was in the 1960 when every sewing plant was begging for workers especially in the south
My mama was born in 1946 to and she remembers well how all the manufacturers were begging for workers and paying top dollar
At 2 to 3 times minimum wage
She worked for West clock and the Roper manufacturing
Nothing wrong with growing up hard and having to scratch for every penny
But
Nobody seems to care about the lives and homes a 1/2 gallon jar full of moonshine did to the families of most time the man of the house
I met Marvin years and years ago at Maggie Vakley black bear restaurant which is still open today
And he would be the first to tell you
I make moonshine because everybody wants it and I can do it
Remember
Nobody has ever given it away unless they were trying to get a new customer 😂😂😂😂
We love and miss you Popcorn
Here's a picture of me in my younger days
So I'm thinking ya got to be pretty good people to earn Popcorn Sutton respect
MTG's father. This explains EVERYTHING!
i know someone in Atlanta who told me he is related to this man. Kenyon. Hope youre well.
Popcorn 🍿 like butter 🧈
The best luv it
A person's passionate life's desires, in our constitution, it's called the persuite of happyness.
Dats called investn.... Guy nvented credit... Who knew.... Legend
He’s probably like 50 years old here
The real og
Ri paradise 🙏uncle popcorn ♥️
May he rest in peace ❤❤❤❤
Popcorn for president
Rip popcorn
What a great man!
Good old time…
The government doesn’t make enough tax money to leave the small scale liquor production alone. Yeah forget the 40% income taxes, we need to make sure the people sharing their craft go to jail. It’s so dumb. If the government wants to tax these guys then why don’t they figure out a way for moonshiners to apply to have a license and make it easy for them and less stressful.
Why did they have to hurt this man :( We all hope to see you again Marvin P. Sutton. Drink up brother.. drink up
a pure legend rip
Ain't nothing like a good ole country story that involves people's first and last names 🤣🤣
Damn good feller